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Day in pictures: 30 January 2014

30 January 2014
Last updated at 13:07

24 hours of news photographs: 30 January 2014

Canadian pop star Justin Bieber has been charged with assaulting a limousine driver in Toronto last month. The 19-year-old handed himself in at a Toronto police station where he was mobbed by TV crews, news photographers and screaming teenage fans.

Military planners have met council officials in Somerset to see what support is needed to help the flood-hit county. The Somerset Levels have been badly hit by flooding in recent weeks. Villages such as Muchelney have been cut off for almost a month and about 11,500 hectares (28,420 acres) of the Levels are flooded by about 65 million cubic metres of water.

A young man says goodbye to a small boy before leaving for work in New Delhi, India.

A supporter of Norman Quijano, a candidate in the forthcoming presidential elections in El Salvador, is seen at a campaign rally in San Salvador. Mr Quijano of the opposition Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA) faces former guerrilla commander Salvador Sanchez, of the ruling Farabundo Marti Front for National Liberation (FMLN).

Workers construct a scaffold around the West Block tower as restoration work continues on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario.

A Seattle Seahawks fan dressed in a homemade bird outfit runs up a small hill near the Space Needle in Seattle. The Seahawks play the Denver Broncos in the Super Bowl on Sunday.

World Cup commemorative cupronickel coins are pictured in Casa da Moeda do Brazil (Brazilian Mint) in Rio de Janeiro.

The Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall visited The Bell pub at Purleigh in Essex where Camilla tried her hand at darts. The couple were there to promote the Prince's not-for-profit organisation The Pub Is The Hub, which supports licensees, rural pubs and community services.

Ferrari driver Fernando Alonso stands next to the new F14T car after it stopped during Formula 1 Testing at the Circuito de Jerez, Spain.